Affliction Warlock DPS Macros and Addons (WoD 6.1)

Macros and addons are an integral part of a raider's arsenal as they can
make it easier to perform a variety of tasks, improving your overall game
experience. On this page, we present macros and addons that can be useful to an
Affliction Warlock in World of Warcraft WoD 6.1.

The other pages of our Affliction Warlock guide can be accessed
from the table of contents on the right.

About Our Reviewers

This guide has been reviewed and approved by two prominent Warlock theorycrafters:
Gahddo,
who maintains the Warlock profiles and rotations in Simulation Craft, and
Zagam,
our in-house Warlock theorycrafter.

1.1. Generic Macros for Warlocks

1.1.1. Soulstone Mouseover Macro

#showtooltip Soulstone

/cast [target=mouseover,exists] [] Soulstone

This macro allows you to cast Soulstone on a raid or party
member by simply hovering the mouse over their unit or raid frame. If you are
not hovering over any friendly unit's unit frame, it will cast Soulstone
on your current target.

1.1.2. Interrupt Macros

#showtooltip

/cast [@focus,exists][@target] Spell Lock

This macro makes your Felhunter cast Spell Lock at your focus, if you have one.
Otherwise, Spell Lock is cast at your current target. Note that since
this is an ability that belongs to one of your demons, you do not need to
stop casting to cast it.

#showtooltip

/cast [@focus,exists][@target] Optical Blast

This is the same macro as above, for the Optical Blast spell
of your Observer.

1.1.4. Incapacitate

#showtooltip Banish

/clearfocus [modifier:alt]

/focus [@focus,noexists]

/cast [@focus,exists][@target,exists] Banish

/y Casting Banish on %F

This macro casts Banish on your focus or your current target.
The first time you use this macro, the focus is set on your current target
(if it is an enemy). Subsequent uses of the macro will keep casting
Banish on your focus, unless you press alt
(or whatever modifier you specify in the second line of the macro), in which
case, the macro will set the focus on your current target before casting
Banish on it.

To sum it up, use the macro to keep your assignment controlled and press
alt while using the macro to cast
Banish on a new enemy.

Note that this macro will slightly interfere with the Interrupt and Dispel
macros given earlier. If you try to use one of these macros,
it will result in the spell being cast on your mind-controlled target (which is your current
focus). In such cases, use a simpler macro for interrupting or dispelling
that casts the spells at your current target.

1.1.5. Demonic Circle

#showtooltip

/stopcasting

/cast Demonic Circle: Teleport

This macro will cancel your current spell cast and make you use your
Demonic Circle. This
saves you the trouble (and the time!) of interrupting your spell cast manually.

1.1.6. Soulshatter

#showtooltip

/stopcasting

/cast Soulshatter

This macro will interrupt your current spell cast and instantly use Soulshatter.
This macro will prevent certain death if you over aggro the boss.

1.2. Specific Macros for Affliction Warlocks

1.2.1. Applying your DoTs: Soulburn + Soul Swap

#showtooltip Soul Swap

/cast Soulburn

/cast Soul Swap

When you want to apply all your DoTs on your target, you should do it
with this macro. We remind you that doing so is very costly (2 Soul Shards)
and ends up being a DPS loss.

2.1. Generic Addons for Warlocks

2.1.1. ElvUI

Here, at Icy Veins, we use
ElvUI
for all our characters. This addon is a complete replacement of the default
User Interface. It comes with almost everything you need to perform properly:
action bars, cooldown timers, proc display, etc.

We strongly recommend that you get this addon.

2.1.2. Boss Mods: Deadly Boss Mods or Bigwigs

Boss mods are addons that warn you about boss abilities and give you
live advice on how to handle some mechanics. We strongly recommend you to
get one such addon. At Icy Veins, we mostly use
Deadly Boss Mods,
the most popular boss mod. A good alternative is
Big Wigs.

2.1.3. Weak Auras

WeakAuras is an
extremely useful addon that allows you to have visual effects on your screen,
helping you track your buffs, debuffs and cooldowns. It is highly customisable
and it can make it much, much easier to keep track of your procs and play your
spec more proficiently. It can also be used for a variety of other
functions.

For examples of Weak Auras strings for tracking your resources, please
refer to this thread on
MMO-Champion.

2.1.4. Omen Threat Meter

Omen Threat Meter
is the most popular addon for displaying the current threat levels on your
target. We recommend you to use it to avoid taking aggro when the tank is still building
up threat on an enemy.

2.1.5. Parrot or Mik's Scrolling Battle Text

Parrot and
Mik's Scrolling Battle Text are highly
customisable addons for displaying floating battle text while in combat (incoming
heals, damage of your spells, etc.). They both work very well by default.

2.1.6. Recount / Skada

Recount is a
well known addon that most people use for displaying current DPS or HPS
(Healing Per Second). We advise you to also use it for checking what you
take damage from and if the share of damage/healing you do with each of your
abilities is similar to that of other players of your class.

2.1.7. Grid and GridClickSets (Optional)

ElvUI comes with decent raid frames. The only real reason for using
Grid and
GridClickSets
is if you want to be able to use Soulstone on raid or party
members by mousing over their raid frame. If you choose to go with Grid, then
you might want to also use
GridStatusRaidDebuff.

2.2. Specific Addons for Affliction Warlocks

Currently, we feel that there is no need for additional addons to play a
Affliction Warlock to its full potential.